Cricketer Mohammed Shami's sister Shabina, her husband Ghaznabi, and others are involved in a scam related to receiving wages under MGNREGA. A probe against them in this regard is in its final stages.
Punjab Labour Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond informed the Vidhan Sabha on Friday that the state government has a plan to include all MGNREGA workers under the Building and Other Construction Workers' (BOCW) Welfare Board.
Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday raised in Rajya Sabha the issues concerning the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), and said the BJP-led government at the Centre has “systematically undermined” the scheme.
The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh is witnessing significant success in its efforts to make women self-reliant.
A fresh controversy over MGNREGA has arisen after hundreds of vendors, who have supplied materials, staged a protest near Uttarkanya, the branch secretariat in Siliguri today.
Trinamul Congress today lambasted the Union home minister and demanded a white paper be published immediately on funds allocated to Bengal under MGNREGA and Awas Yojana from 2021.
Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress national general secretary and MP from Diamond Harbour
Apart from the hefty MGNREGA wage dues, the unpaid money still remaining to be disbursed in favour of the vendors over the years, has reached a whopping Rs 1,300cr in East Burdwan.
He was taking part in the debate on the Union budget in Lok Sabha this afternoon.
The integration of social welfare schemes with environmental conservation strategies can yield significant benefits for both rural livelihoods and forest cover, as evidenced by recent findings from Kangra district in Himachal Pradesh.
